California officials launched a new resource on Thursday, providing people with an interactive map showing where marijuana businesses are permitted—and where they are blocked from opening—throughout the state. The tool draws attention to the fact that more than half of the state’s cities and counties do not allow any... Read more

The governor of Rhode Island signed a bill on Wednesday to legalize marijuana, making it the 19th state to end prohibition. While it will be at least a few months until adult-use retail sales launch in the Ocean State, adults 21 and older can now legally possess up to... Read more

South Dakota officials on Wednesday certified that activists turned in a sufficient number of signatures earlier this month to qualify a marijuana legalization measure for the November ballot. South Dakotans for Better Marijuana Laws (SDBML) needed 16,961 valid submissions to place their initiative before voters. Now, the secretary of... Read more

The Rhode Island House of Representatives and Senate approved a pair of identical companion bills to legalize marijuana on Tuesday. Both chambers took up the proposals, advancing them to the opposite body for perfunctory votes on final passage to formally send the legislation to Gov. Dan McKee (D), who... Read more

Georgia voters have sent a marijuana message to state lawmakers, approving a ballot measure on Tuesday that expresses their support for adult-use cannabis legalization. State Democratic party leadership placed nine non-binding advisory questions on the primary election ballot to help inform the legislature on where Georgians stand on various... Read more

Federal marijuana arrests continue to plummet year over year as more states move to legalize cannabis, new data from the Justice Department shows. While there were still 2,576 Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) marijuana arrests in fiscal year 2020, cannabis busts have dropped an average of 11 percent each year... Read more

A top federal drug agency wants to find new partners who can supply marijuana for research purposes. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) posted a “sources sought” notice on Friday, explaining that it’s looking for capability statements from eligible facilities that are authorized to cultivate the plant by... Read more

The effort to legalize medical marijuana in Kansas is effectively dead for 2022, with a key Senate chairman conceding on Monday that reform will have to wait until next year to pass—but also saying that lawmakers will work over the summer to prepare a “near complete product” of a... Read more